A chronicle of the creative adventures of filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

DIRT to Premiere at 'Judas Steer', Galway, May 19th

Dirt, the brand new video by Vicky Langan and me, will premiere at Galway Arts Centre this Saturday, May 19th. This will be as part of 'Judas Steer', a special event focusing on Vicky's work that will feature a live performance, film screening (our Contact, Hereunder and Desk 13 will also be projected), an exhibition of 'relics and leavings' from previous performances, and a DJ set. Here's the full blurb:

Vicky Langan is a Galway-born, Cork-based performer and curator whose
“vulnerable, emotionally charged performances” (The Wire) have marked
her out as one of the most challenging and unsettling presences on the
Irish scene today. Her work is multifaceted, embracing not only various
types of performance but also filmmaking and organising experimental
music events. In this event, she will be bringing these three strands
of her practice back home, giving Galway audiences a rare, concentrated
one-night blast of the intensity that has made her a force to be
reckoned with in Cork.

Judas Steer will feature Langan as performer, filmmaker and curator. Her
solo performance project, Wölflinge, uses flesh, fluid and self-built
instruments to envelop audiences in an aura of dark intimacy. In opening
herself emotionally, she creates warm yet discomforting rituals that at
once embrace the viewers and remain resolutely private. Not only will
Langan be performing, but she will also present an exhibition of
recreations, relics and leavings of past performances.

In partnership with experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain, Langan
has created a series of films that expand the scope of her performance
activities. Le Cain’s distinctively jarring, disruptive visual rhythms
have proved a strikingly fitting match to her troubling sensibility.
Four Langan/Le Cain films will be screened, including the premiere of a
brand new work.

No account of Langan’s accomplishments is complete without mention of
Black Sun, Cork’s legendary weirdo/outer limits music event which she
founded in 2009 and has curated ever since. Her DJ set, which closes
the evening, will give a powerful taste of the sort of strange sounds
that have earned Black Sun its international reputation.